Quotes About Balance

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Life: A compromise between Fate and Freewill.

Life: An affirmative between two negatives.

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.

There were growling days and laughing days and days that mixed them up.

Life. — Enjoy whatever flowers come with the manure.

Live for the roots Love the green Dance with the blossoms

Sometimes life gives honey and other times, stings; Sometimes we need roots and other times, wings.

Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly.

So much light, along with the darkness, it's life — just scary and joyous life!

I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast.

Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.

If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today.

If you're always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in?

Pardon my sanity... in a world insane...

His madness foiled his reason...

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.

But in things that respect the feelings, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions!

Look both ways before entering the insanity.

All my life I've been trying to fit insane pieces into the puzzle of sanity. Or maybe the other way around.

Why, no one is sane, straight along, year in & year out, & we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, & express themselves in various forms — fortunately harmless forms as a rule — but in whatever form they occur an immense upheaval of feeling can at any time topple us distinctly over the sanity-line for a little while...

God delights in odd numbers.

He that in his studies wholly applies himself to labor and exercise, and neglects meditation, loses his time; and he that only applies himself to meditation, and neglects labor and exercise, only wanders and loses himself.